The woman was unconsciously led by the nose, "So what?"
"So, I wore the Invisibility Clothes which hides my presence."
I slowly took off the cashmere coat I wore, revealing the Invisibility Clothes underneath.
"Don't tell me that you hid your presence and came here to avenge your friend who miscarried because of the Corpse Gu?" The woman looked down on me from head to toe, showing nothing but contempt, and laughed behind her hand.
As if I were just cannon fodder she could dispose of with a flick of her fingers.
I gently stroked the flower hairpin in my hand with my thumb, "Yes, it's only fair to take a life for a life."
"Where do you get the courage? Did Liang Jingru give it to you?" The way the woman looked at me was as though she was staring at a corpse.
Yang Xi, like a watchdog, barked at me, "Su Wan, don't spout such arrogant nonsense without weighing your own strength. The young miss could crush you with a single finger."
I couldn't be bothered to give Yang Xi a single glance as I said to the woman slowly, "Your Life-bound Gu just died, your strength has at least halved, and you're injured. Even if I'm just an ant, you'll need to channel your Inner Breath to kill me, right? And when you do, what will happen when the backlash hits you?"
On the outside, he looked like a fine young man, fully aware of the evil deeds of the Ten Thousand Poison Hall.
Yet he willingly played the lackey, clearly a person whose moral compass had plummeted to the Mariana Trench.
His betrayal left me completely unfazed.
"Bitch!! Bitch!! You're just a lowly mortal, how dare you swagger before me." The woman trembled with rage, her cold and proud facade shattered by the provocation, her golden eyes tainted with a hint of crimson fury, "Protector Zi Shan, where are you? Kill her for me, I don't want to see this bitch again."
The woman's voice mixed with a power unknown to me.
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After she spoke, there was a "boom".
The entire hall shook so violently that I had to clutch at a pillar to not fall over as if in an earthquake.
Yang Xi fell during the tremor and was so weakened by the earlier blow from the woman that he couldn't even muster the strength to get up.
The woman got her retribution; half her soul was damaged following the death of her Life-bound Gu.
Daring to use her power, she immediately faced a backlash and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, staining her veil red, her cold voice tainted with extreme rage, "Zi Shan, are you not heeding my command!"
"Zi Shan won't be coming." My words were light and airy.
The woman's pupils slightly dilated, then suddenly turned on Yang Xi, "Where are the two pieces of clothing I gave you? Why aren't you wearing them on your body?"
"I am wearing them, inside my coat. Young Miss, how could I possibly go against your word?" Yang Xi crawled humbly forward, desperately trying to get closer to the woman of his dreams.
The woman lowered her gaze, her eyes filled with cold thinness, as if she was talking to Yang Xi while murmuring to herself, "Then why can't I feel the continuous... supply of essence and life-span to Zi Shan from you as a Cauldron Furnace...?"
"You... what are you talking about??"
Yang Xi couldn't believe his ears, then clenched his fists, "Those two pieces of clothing have... that effect??"
"What else did you think? Did you really suppose, with your low status, you deserved to wear clothes made from Cloud Bead Silk??"
The woman's face completely turned crimson.
Yang Xi's self-esteem was crushed to powder by the woman, his lips bleeding from biting them, "But... Protector Zi Shan is already dead."